Brackley Area Volunteer Car Service
The Volunteer Car Service provides transport for people who are unable to get to medical and social care appointments such as:
- Doctors
- Dentists
- Opticians
- Hospitals
- Chiropodists
- Day Centres
The service also takes people to visit relatives who are in hospital or residential care. Click here or call 01280 841099 to find out more.
Generation Games – An Activity Network for the Over 50s
Generation Games, Oxfordshire’s activity network for the over 50s, is a completely free service that creates a personal programme of activities for its members, providing support and helping to ensure their safety. The Generation Games mission is simple: making members stronger for longer. Members get a personalised exercise programme, based on their needs. Click here to find out more.
King’s Sutton Community First Responders
Every second counts when someone has a serious illness and simple interventions can save lives or prevent disability. We are a group of volunteer Community First Responders who live or work in King’s Sutton and surrounding areas in South Northamptonshire. Working in partnership with East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), we respond to life threatening emergency medical calls within our area and provide vital assistance to people who are ill or injured while the emergency ambulance travels to the scene.
What We Do
When a 999 call is made within our local area, the Ambulance Service dispatches an emergency ambulance as normal to the scene, but at the same time it will contact the Community First Responder (CFR) who is on-duty. In a similar way to how retained firefighters or volunteer RNLI crews attend incidents from their home or workplace, the Community First Responder will attend the call and, because they are already in the local area, can often arrive before the ambulance and begin to treat the patient by:
- Giving oxygen therapy
- Clearing and controlling the airway of an unconscious patient
- Providing bag-valve mask resuscitation and heart defibrillation
- Controlling any bleeding
- Taking basic observations
- Reassuring worried family and friends and taking charge of the situation
The King’s Sutton Community First Responders group co-ordinated by Elaine Cross was launched in February 2011 with help from a £1200 donation by the parish council and £324 collected by regulars at the White Horse public house. Click here for more information about the work of the Community First Responders.
King’s Sutton Post Office & Village Store
We have a wide range of goods, including bread and pastries baked in-store daily; fresh fruit and vegetables from a local supplier; deli; dairy; frozen foods; groceries; newspapers; and stationery – all available to order/for delivery too.
We offer a dry cleaning service. Also photocopying.
The Post Office counter is open for cash withdrawals/banking for most high street banks, car tax, mobile phone top ups and Royal Mail/Parcelforce postal services and returns.
Post Office counter and shop opening hours:
- 09:00-17:00 Monday to Friday
- 09:00-13:00 Saturdays
For all enquiries/orders, please call Wendy, Jill & Ian on 01295 811379.